Figure wheeled toy



Patented Apr. 22, 1924.

STATES "PATENT FIGURE WHEELED TOY.

Application filed April 18, 1922.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SABO, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and 5 State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful. Improvements in FigureWVheeled Toys, of which the following is a specification.

My invention particularly pertains to that class of toys which embody awheeled carriage carrying a rockable body member operatively connectedto the wheels of the carriage in such manner that as the wheels areturned the body will rock and on rocking the body the wheels will berotated.

An object of my invention is to provide a wheeled toy embodying arockable body member in the form of a walking beam and designed torepresent an animal having a tail, and having means for effectingpositive movement of the tail on oscillation of the body member.

Vith the foregoing object in view, to-.

gather with such other objects as may subsequently appear, my inventionresides in the parts and in the combination, arrange- I ment. andconstruction of parts. hereinafter described and claimed, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation with parts broken away;

Fig. 2 is an end view;

Fig. 3 is a detail in vertical section as seen on the line 33 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a detail in section as seen on the line 11- of Fig. 2.

More specifically 6 indicates a frame or bed which is mounted on wheels7, there being a pair of the wheels arranged on the opposite sides ofthe front portion of the frame and a corresponding pair of wheelsdisposed on the opposite sides of the rear portion of the frame. Eachpair of the wheels is mounted on a crank-shaft 8, the crank portion ofwhich extends between side members of the frame and with the cranksextending in opposite directions relative to each other.

Projecting upwardly from the frame intermediate the front and rearwheels is a standard, 9 which extends into a slot 10 formed in the edgeof a panel 11 and on which standard the panel is mounted to rock SerialNo. 554,600.

yertically; a pivot pin 12 carried by the panel passing through a slot13 in the standard to effect pivotal engagement therewith. The panel isshaped to have an outline in simulation of an animal here shown as adog, and pivoted at 14 on the forward portion of the panel is a pair ofleg memhere 15, there being a leg member arranged against each side faceof the panel and affixed thereto by a single pivot pin. A correspondingpair of leg members 16 are attached to the rear end portion of the panelby a pivot pin 17. The lower end portions of the leg members areconnected to the cranks 8 so that on rotating the wheels and the cranksturned, the leg members will serve as pitmen to effect oscillation ofthe body member to give the latter a walking beam motion, or act todrive the cranks and wheels on imparting an oscillatory motion to thebody member.

The rear end portion of the panel is formed with a slot 18 as shown inFigure 4 into which extends the end of a tail member 19 engaged by a pin20 carried by the rear leg members, and which pin extends Y through aslot 21 formed in the tail member. The lower edge of the slot 18 isformed with a protuberance 22 which constitutes a fulcrum on which thetail member seats and acts when the leg and body members i turn relativeto each other on the pivot pin 17 to cause the tail member to have avertical swinging movement relative to the body member thus giving theappearance of a dog wagging its tail when the body member is rocked.

The operation of the invention is apparent from the foregoing. it beingseen that the pivotally mounted body member 11 being connected to thewheels 7 by the leg members 15 and 16 any oscillation of the body memberwill act to drive the wheel and turning of the wheels will serve to rockthe body member, and that turning the rear leg members 16 on their pivotpin 17 the pin 20 will coact with the protuberance 22 to effect rockingmovement of the tail memher.

I claim:

In a toy of the character described, a wheeled carriage, a panel pivotedto rock on said carriage, a pair of leg membera a,

pivot pin connecting said leg members to said panel, operativeconnections between the leg members and the Wheeled carriage adapted torock the leg members relative to the panel on turning the Wheels of thecarriage, said panel having a slot located near the pivot pin, a tailmember one end of which is arranged in the slot and is ful cruinecl onone edge of the slot, and a pin carried by said leg members engagingsaid tail member whereby on turning said leg members on their pivotsrelative to the panel the tail member will rock relative to the panel.

JOSEPH SABO.

